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Seeds and powders and all that stuff!

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Jul 31, 2016

Meal Preparation 101

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An example weekly meal prep for my family

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Jul 31, 2016

Gather & Grow Nutrition — specialising in Pre- and Post-natal Nutrition.

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Take a medjool date, split it open, remove the pit, stuff with roasted almond butter, sprinkle with sea salt & add half a square of @pana_organic sixty % or cinnamon chocolate. Repeat.

Sleeping so peacefully in my arms, little Walt. I couldn’t quite get him to sleep in the bed without me just now, so, here we are. I’m grateful for my mother, who comes on Tuesdays and can be with Joan so I can be with Walt. I’m also grateful for your book recommendations for Joan! Yesterday on stories I asked for help finding books that are long-ish, have a good message and, if possible, pictures as well as words. I was kindly sent loads of suggestions & have begun working my way through them all. I promise to share them soon 💛

Three nights of less sleep than usual (which isn’t a lot in the first place) and I feel like I’m running on empty. Rugging up and heading out for a walk always seems to jolt me to life, so that’s what we did early this morning. We watched the sky turn from pink to grey, as Joan munched on walnuts & nori sheets, & Walt silently stared at the trees. We got home just before the rain came. Joan & I then made crepes (recipe by @clotildenet - search her blog for ‘French crepes’), adding a little beetroot powder to the batter so they would turn pink. Pink crepes! It wasn’t the greatest cooking experience, as Joan is tired, too. But I managed to pause & respond calmly to her behaviour, instead of react, which something I always strive to do yet sometimes struggle with - especially when I’m tired. So there’s that. And the crepes were delicious; Walt loved them. I ate some with scrambled eggs + spinach, & some with lemon + sugar (Walt had his plain). Walt & I are now snuggled in bed while Ben & Joan...I’m not quite sure what they’re doing. I’m a terrible napper, so might just watch more of Fleabag season 2 (so good). These tiring, challenging, joyful days with a seven month old and an almost four year old 💛 #collab #silvercrossaustralia #lovesilvercross @silvercross_australia

3:39pm. Prepping cabbage for dinner, to serve alongside rice & dhal. Joan was in another room, while Walt found himself in possession of her wallet - one of her ‘special things’ (the number of ‘special things’ (read: things Walt cannot touch) Joan owns is increasing at a rapid rate now Walt is crawling). He was pretty chuffed to examine this ordinarily off limits item up close.

Dinner goods, including a dreamy sourdough cob loaf made by my dad.

This morning Joan wrote a story. It was about Anna & Elsa (of course). They came to her house & had a picnic with cake. Suddenly, they had to climb down a rope to escape a dragon. Then they went to kinder & ballet & iceskating. While she dictated, I wrote it down on a piece of paper, which I intend on sticking in a work book entitled ‘Joan’s Stories’ 💛 Ben took these pictures last weekend as we played with fallen flowers. The four of us were about to go grocery shopping. I was wearing my new favourite jumper, the Ziggy merino sweater, which I was kindly gifted by @toorallie. Winter is here and I’m rather pleased. Cozy knits, vegetable curries & mornings at the kitchen table with my girl, writing stories while sipping hot tea.

I finished the final edits of my book this afternoon, then took my people out for celebratory cake. Knowing Joan would be happy as long as there was icing &/or cream on the table, Ben chose bread & butter pudding (not my idea of a good time - a personal failing, I’m sure), while I went for this zucchini & pinenut beauty. Back home now, Walt has just fallen asleep and I’m going to attempt the old ‘stealthily roll away & leave him sleeping’ manoeuvre.